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Comment by dunefox | Hacker News Reader

> having a video conference open all day with everyone in

This sounds absolutely horrible.

Honestly, it's fine. Most of us are on mute for most of the day. In a trading environment, you need a hoot, and this is pretty much our equivalent.

It works well and (at least with how our team works) it's not invasive.

Being watched by all colleagues all day is extremely invasive. I would definitely not want to work in this environment.

You just described every open plan office ever. At least this way nobody can look over your shoulder at your screen. And you can turn your camera off if you want a break.

Yes, open plan offices are horrible. No need to reproduce something just as horrible and intrusive when working from home.

I would just turn both microphone and camera off; if somebody wants something they can message me, like a sane person.

> This sounds absolutely horrible.

And now you know how it feels to work in an open floor plan or cubicle where someone can come along and break your flow causing you to have to waste over 20 minutes getting back into it.

The key with the all day video conference is you can mute it and set your status as away when you need to do deep work. Can't do that in an office environment.

Or, you know, since I'm already working from home I can just not be in a "digital office". An open floor office is already bad, so there's not need to reproduce it.

It's simply intrusive and unnecessary.

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